Shadwen on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Shadwen is a 3rd person stealth-action game where the only rule is to remain unseen. Stay hidden - or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight!

Shadwen is a action, stealth and adventure game developed and published by Frozenbyte.
Released on May 17th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 1,321 reviews of which 1,011 were positive and 310 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 16.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Shadwen into these genres:

Action Stealth Adventure Female Protagonist Assassin Medieval Singleplayer Third Person Physics Time Manipulation Level Editor Atmospheric Crafting Strategy Puzzle Indie Open World Action-Adventure Dark Great Soundtrack

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: (64 bit / 32 bit *) Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
Processor: Intel Core i3/i5/i7 1.8 GHz CPU dual-core. AMD 2.0 GHz dual-core.
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: * Highest graphics detail levels are only available in 64 bit OS

MacOS

OS: OS X version Mavericks 10.9, or later. Note that Shadwen only works on a 32-bit operating system.
Processor: Intel Mac
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 4.1
Storage: 3 GB available space
Additional Notes: Keyboard, Mouse/Trackpad with Secondary click enabled. *NOTE: Please be advised that Shadwen does not run on older MacBooks. Requires at least Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better. All Macs produced since Late 2013 are able to run the game.

Linux

OS: steamOS 2.0 (64bit)
Processor: Intel quad-core 2.0 GHz or dual-core 2.6 GH
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 4.1 Nvidia GTX 650 or greater
Storage: 3 GB available space
Additional Notes: Shadwen runs best with proprietary drivers and may not function correctly with open source drivers. Please note that Shadwen might not work correctly on all Linux distributions.

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

"Stealth" and "linear" are two words you usually never want to see in the same sentence. But Shadwen is still quite fun to play once you get used to the tools you have - and the various environmental hazards you can manipulate - to help you dispatch of some of those guards. The AI of the guards is ropey, to say the least. Their field of vision is quite small, and don't seem to notice when you backstab others even when you're right behind them, suggesting limited hearing as well. The girl (Lily) you need to escort from hideout to hideout can often get away with quite literally walking under a guard's nose. But then you feel this is necessary, for the game to prevent the enemies from spotting Lily, as there's nothing worse or more annoying than an escort quest where your charge blunders in and gets killed themselves. Maybe it's a wise choice for the game to verge on the lenient side. The level design is visually repetitive (although quite polished) and is indeed very linear, but you can use your grappling hook to pull stuff around and create diversions, or even (and this was my favourite bit) pulling a keg of gunpowder onto a campfire and causing the resulting explosion to kill two nearby guards. The wide variety of ways you can kill enemies, often involving a combination of two items, almost veers Shadwen into immersive sim territory, but not quite, because of the linearity and the fact that it doesn't really feel like a lived-in world: the guards make too many mistakes and repeat too many conversations to be convincing as real people. Plus, there's virtually no in-game lore to dig into, and the story is as minimal as they come, so there is that sticking point to contend with. Because of this, it's only a moderate recommendation from me, but you can enjoy Shadwen as long as you don't go in expecting a Thief-like or a Splinter Cell-like. It's more akin to Styx, I'd say. Be aware also that there is no non-lethal takedown: it's kill or evade only, and taking the distraction route instead can be tedious and time-consuming.

Nov. 2024

One of the best stealth games I have played. Good gameplay, good history... Is a great game in general terms.

Nov. 2024

Good game. Fun concept. Feels kinda like it had the rug pulled out from under it near the end of it's development period. There are some tell tale signs of unfinished mechanics and unpolished details. Overall it is a game and a full one at that! But there are some things like the grapple hook that don't always work how they are supposed to. Has a few interactions between the characters with still images that don't necessarily go together or are two slightly different art styles. I would say that if it had another 6 months to a year of development it would definitely be a rather heavy hitter. Unfortunately it's just, ok. It's definitely worth $16, there's a lot of content, it's just content that's not quite done cooking. 6/10 would be murderous medieval spider-woman again

Aug. 2024

Uh Mazing! A great stealth game where you move quickly in the shadows! In 3d too! Also comes with a neat level editor! I admit the guards are a bit dumb but this is a very fun game with a great great story! Rating 8/10

May 2024

Very fun little game, with a really good pacifist route. Its basically a stealth puzzle platformer where your job is to run around the levels and distract guards to clear a route for your little girl companion. It may sound like a long escort mission but the little girl is invincible/invisible tot he guards and her AI is pretty good as long as you create a route for her. Its a stealth game that really focuses on manipulating guards and running away from guards rather than just hiding from them. You can also kill them if you want to but the pacifist route is really fun. The character has very good movement and is basically a parkour acrobat. The plot is very generic and the levels get pretty repetitive so I've had to take breaks and play it across multiple sessions, but the core gameplay loop is very fun. Haven't finished it yet but I think it will last about 4-5 hours.

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16.99€

7.4

1,011

310

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Developer

Frozenbyte

Publisher

Frozenbyte

Release 17 May 2016

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